I had to look up who said that and learned it was Tip O’ Neill, former Speaker of the House. Not that it makes any difference, but I thought I’d provide a brief history lesson while I’m in Washington D.C. I find Washington, DC pretty far removed from my more natural habitat on the water. […]
I know it’s a bit clichéd… actually, it’s really clichéd, but of course that’s what we’re supposed to write about during this season of thankfulness. It can’t all be all bad news all the time, right? Only after reading about the decay of pteropods in the Pacific and the mass strandings of whales off of […]
Well, it’s official, what I had suspected might happen in the future, is actually already underway: the strong possibility of a collapse of the very base of the food chain. Reading this article in the Seattle Times made me realize I’m already behind the curve. Now being a former full-time (now part-time) fishing guide and […]
This blog post appears as part of our “Focus on Forage Fish” series, which highlights the importance of managing prey species for ocean ecosystems. Well into fall, the sun is setting sooner, the nights are getting colder and the fish are getting fewer. Winter is not far away, and with it, ecosystems start to dramatically […]
Volunteers from the Association of Northwest Steelheaders are just days away from delivering hundreds of thousands of Chinook salmon and trout eggs to Oregon schools under the Eggs to Fry program. This has been an incredible success story for our area schools, getting schoolchildren interested and involved in the detailed and incredible life histories of […]
Fall brings to mind one thing for the NW sportsman or -woman, and that is harvest time. Whether you’re deer hunting or pursuing the largest salmon that return to Oregon’s waters, you reap the benefits of some of the finest weather and most-productive period of gathering that Pacific Northwesterners get to witness. There must be […]
It was one of those incredible fall days, September 30th, out of Brookings, Oregon. I really was “living the dream,” as so many of my friends tell me. I was on the lower Chetco River, an iconic salmon super-highway of large fish, some of the largest in Oregon, and the real fun was still a […]
Fishing in September: It’s Tillamook Time Where are all the Tillamook Hogs? Home waters, there’s nothing quite like it. I finally got to transition back to Tillamook Bay this week. After what I would term a disastrous September Buoy 10 season due to a lack of hatchery coho, it was a great move. My favorite […]
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